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D-Day, June 6, 1944: Favorite D-Day Movies
Vanity | June 6, 2010 | Vanity

Posted on 06/06/2010 2:04:06 PM PDT by PROCON

Last week, during Memorial Day weekend, we had fun telling of our favorite WWII movies .

On this solemn day, what are you're favorite D-Day movies?


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KEYWORDS: dday; frontpage; hollywood; moviereview; wwii
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My favs are (again), "The Longest Day" and "Saving Private Ryan"...how about your favs?
1 posted on 06/06/2010 2:04:06 PM PDT by PROCON
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“The Longest Day” and “Saving Private Ryan”. No contest.


2 posted on 06/06/2010 2:06:10 PM PDT by unkus
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To: PROCON

Private Ryan.


3 posted on 06/06/2010 2:06:33 PM PDT by THX 1138 ("Harry, I have a gift.")
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To: PROCON

The Big Red One


4 posted on 06/06/2010 2:08:07 PM PDT by dfwgator
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The Longest Day. Saving Private Ryan had excellent special effects but the plot was ludicrous and had many factual errors per my father who landed on Omaha Beach On D-Day.


5 posted on 06/06/2010 2:08:51 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: unkus
These were REAL MEN!!


6 posted on 06/06/2010 2:09:35 PM PDT by PROCON (Proudly Served U.S. Army 6/69-1/72 & 12/75-1/82)
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The Longest Day.

The Dirty Dozen. (The raid took place on D-Day)


7 posted on 06/06/2010 2:10:22 PM PDT by ILS21R
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My son and I watched the first two episodes of “Band of Brothers” last night.


8 posted on 06/06/2010 2:11:36 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
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Hard to beat the “Longest Day”.

John has a long mustache


9 posted on 06/06/2010 2:12:42 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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The Allied forces face the daunting cliffs at Normandy June 6, 1944.
10 posted on 06/06/2010 2:12:57 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (11/03/2010 - What did Obama know and when did he know it?)
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"Saving Private Ryan" for the realism portrayed at Omaha Beach - you REALLY could feel what it must have been like for those guys ...

Brig. Gen. Norman Cota (Robert Mitchum) in "The Longest Day" for the following quote:

"Only two kinds of people are gonna stay on this beach: those that are already dead and those that are gonna die. Now get off your butts. You guys are the Fighting 29th."

11 posted on 06/06/2010 2:13:13 PM PDT by Lmo56
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The Longest Day!


12 posted on 06/06/2010 2:16:04 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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My favorite scenes involved the two lone German pilots, and how much disdain they had for their superiors.

Col. Josef ‘Pips’ Priller: [speaking in German] Thank you, my dear Hans! You have just killed both of us!
[slams down phone]

Luftwaffe major: It is getting very difficult to get any sleep around here.

Col. Josef ‘Pips’ Priller: Your prospects for a long sleep have just improved. The invasion has begun at Normandy. We are to fly there and attack with our two planes.


13 posted on 06/06/2010 2:16:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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"Hard to beat the “Longest Day”."

No doubt.

14 posted on 06/06/2010 2:17:24 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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My son and I watched the first two episodes of “Band of Brothers” last night.

Just a GREAT series, have the DVD's and watch often!

15 posted on 06/06/2010 2:17:36 PM PDT by PROCON (Proudly Served U.S. Army 6/69-1/72 & 12/75-1/82)
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Absolutely!


16 posted on 06/06/2010 2:18:36 PM PDT by unkus
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I can picture that scene without even trying. I must have seen that movie 10 times. “Patton” at least 15 times.


17 posted on 06/06/2010 2:22:00 PM PDT by unkus
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BTW, I served in RVN a year before you with A 1/9 Cav, thank you for your Service!!


18 posted on 06/06/2010 2:22:22 PM PDT by PROCON (Proudly Served U.S. Army 6/69-1/72 & 12/75-1/82)
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Has anyone visited Normandy and walked the beaches?
It's high on my list of things to do.
19 posted on 06/06/2010 2:24:27 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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That is one of the great things about The Longest Day, the Germans weren’t just these blood thirsty madman like they are usually portrayed. They were just as scared out of their wits as the Allies storming the beaches, and knew they were screwed.

Like the scene with Richard Burton, when he pointed out that the dead German soldier there next to him had put his boots on the wrong feet.


20 posted on 06/06/2010 2:26:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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